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Use of commercial-off-the-shelf (COTS) products is becoming an acceptable software development method. Current methods of selecting COTS products involve using the intuition of software developers or a direct assessment of the products. The former approach is subjective, whereas the latter approach is expensive as the efficiency of the direct assessment approach is inversely proportional to the product of the number of modules in the system to be developed and the total number of modules in the candidate COTS products. With the increase in the number of available COTS components, the time spent on choosing the appropriate COTS products could easily offset the advantages of using them. A domain model is a generic model of the domain of an application system. It captures all of the features and characteristics of the domain. In this chapter, we present a new indirect selection approach, called the Domain-Based COTS-product Selection Method, which makes use of domain models. We also report a successful case study in which we applied our selection method to the development of an on-line margin-trading application.
This work was partially supported by the Hong Kong Polytechnic University research grant AP205, and also by two grants from the Research Grant Council of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, China (Project Nos: CityU 1118/99E and HKU 7021/00E).
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Leung, H.K.N., Leung, K.R.P.H. (2003). Domain-Based COTS-Product Selection Method. In: Cechich, A., Piattini, M., Vallecillo, A. (eds) Component-Based Software Quality. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 2693. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-45064-1_3
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